Staten Island Advance photoA group of MTA officers and bridge workers helped revive a 54-year-old man who passed out and stopped breathing after he pulled into a parking lot at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Tuesday afternoon.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A group of MTA officers and bridge workers helped revive a 54-year-old man who passed out and stopped breathing after he pulled into a parking lot at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Tuesday afternoon.

The man, identified by sources as Robert Stanzione of Arlene Street, had no pulse, and the crew used a defibrillator and CPR to resuscitate him until emergency service technicians arrived, said MTA spokeswoman Judie Glave.

"It was incredibly dramatic," Ms. Glave said. Stanzione pulled his Toyota Highlander into the bridge's employee lot at about 3:40 p.m., right by the engineers trailer, and encountered assistant engineer Aiman Youseff, she said.

Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority officers Paul Padilla and December Bailey arrived, Padilla with a defibrillator, Ms. Bailey with an oxygen tank, Ms. Glave said. Lt. Cheryl DeSetto also came out to help.

"The guy was not breathing, not breathing at all. He had no pulse," Ms. Glave said.

Padilla put the defibrillator pads on Stanzione, and Ms. DeSetto activated the device, then, Padilla and bridge Maintenance Superintendent Dan Fortunato alternated performing CPR for several minutes, pumping on his chest, she said.

Stanzione's heartbeat returned, and a group of FDNY EMTs arrived on the scene in an SUV, followed by an ambulance who took the man to Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, she said.

Ms. Glave said the MTA heard from one of Stanzione's doctors, who said the crew saved his life and he was in stable condition.

"Without them performing CPR, he would not have made it," she said.

A spokeswoman with Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, confirmed Stanzione was a patient there but did not have information on his condition Tuesday night.